16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
But, if you're talking about capital, I've no idea how much you need to spend as an organisation, but people have capital programmes that last for decades in order to modernise their estate.
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
And that's the only one.
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
I appreciate the way you use words. You're in agreement with the vast majority. If you're in agreement with the vast majority, you must not be in agreement with some. Using the term 'vast majority' excludes some. Which are the ones that you're not in…
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
You have to decide to do one first and another one second. You call it a 'hierarchy'; I would call it a 'prioritisation'. I think that's a matter of semantics rather than anything else, but I think the word 'prioritisation' gives a greater urgency to what…
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
What's the difference between a hierarchy and a prioritisation?
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
And, unfortunately, the tailored review described the recommendations in the final report as a programme of work; what it didn't do is put them in priority order. Have you put them in priority order?
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
Please ask them to check that. Can I move on to the tailored review? You've talked a lot about the tailored review; in fact, I'm coming in at a stage where you've probably answered quite a lot of what I'm about to ask. The first question is: the tailored…
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
Well, perhaps our legal people can let me know, and let the committee know, because that is what is publicly printed, which is that claims are capped unless they're one of those two. Now, if there are others, I think that the world would like to know that…
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
Well, the two that are not capped—and you can tell me if I've got this wrong—are race discrimination and sex discrimination. Are there others you say that are not capped?
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Craffu ar y cyfrifon: Amgueddfa Cymru
I've further questions about the tailored review, but just one question, and this is when I discovered what I thought I knew was wrong. I thought I understood that the employment tribunal payments were capped, and that, in 2022, the highest payment was…
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Yes.
16 Tachwedd 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
One question, Mark. They say they generate profit into the Exchequer. Can we ask them how much?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
And you're convinced that's sufficient. But, of course, if it was 100 per cent out, it would still be de minimis, wouldn't it?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Moving on, I'll start off with a comment. I actually agree with the transfer of the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales to the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales; I think that's a move in the right direction. I have another view on it…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you very much. I'm just very pleased to see it in there. As one of the few council estate Members here, with another one in the room as well, we are very much a small minority, and I'd like it to stop being like that. Moving on to the impact of…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
A very simple way of doing it, both here and in local government, is to collect the council tax band of the housing lived in by Members here and members of each local authority. That would give you a very rough guide, but council tax banding is probably the…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Which is what I'm going to talk about now. My view, and it's probably not a majority one, is that the greatest underrepresented group, both in the Senedd and in local government, is working-class people, people from social housing. If the Senedd was…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
On the voter information platform, are you confident that £750,000 to £1 million is now, following the rise in inflation, enough?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Perhaps you could write to us.
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
But, at that stage, then, would councils be allowed to set supplementary council tax?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
But it wouldn't need primary legislation to do it. Because there's primary legislation, which has that quid pro quo, wasn't there?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, very much on that. There was a time, when I was involved, that the RSG couldn't be altered in-year without primary legislation, because that was the quid pro quo for local authorities not being able to give a supplementary council tax, which, again, as…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes.
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay. We've got those numbers. They differ from something we've had previously, but the current numbers are the most important, so thank you.
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Finance Committee
Diweddariad ar sefyllfa ariannol Llywodraeth Cymru yn ystod y flwyddyn 2023-24: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Do you recognise the £177 million? You don't recognise the £177 million net funding allocation.
